appease

verb
🔊/əˈpiːz/
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(formal, usually disapproving)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they appease
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he / she / it appeases
🔊/əˈpiːzɪz/
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past simple appeased
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past participle appeased
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-ing form appeasing
🔊/əˈpiːzɪŋ/
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  1. appease somebody to make somebody calmer or less angry by giving them what they want安抚;抚慰
    • The move was widely seen as an attempt to appease critics of the regime.普遍认为,这一举措是试图安抚批评政权的人。🔊🔊
  2. appease somebody/something to give a country what it wants in order to avoid war绥靖(满足另一国的要求以避免战争)Topics War and conflictc2
  3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French apaisier, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + pais ‘peace’.